Rixa, the woman who and helpfully posted the birth of Inga on YouTube to inadvertently illustrate exactly how babies
die at homebirth.
The key point about homebirth is that MORE babies
die at homebirth than in the hospital.
How many babies have to
die at homebirth before homebirth advocates wake up to the reality that homebirth kills babies?
«More babies
die at homebirth, but the ones who live have better genes!»
and «More babies
die at homebirth, but the ones who live have better gut bacteria!»
First of all, «More babies
die at homebirth, but the ones who live have better genes!»
I fervently believe that most babies who
die at homebirth did not have to die.
I care about babies who
die at homebirth, and the regular readers of this blog do, too.
The problem is that a much higher percentage of babies
die at homebirth.
As 2 out of 3 babies who
die at homebirth could have been saved in a hospital, living close to the hospital is not close enough.
Since 2 out of 3 babies who
die at homebirth could have been saved in a hospital, homebirth is not «as safe as life gets.»
In other words, most of the babies who
die at homebirth in the US could have been saved in the hospital, whereas none of the babies who died at the hospital could have been saved at home.
Since 2 out of 3 babies who
die at homebirth could have been saved in the hospital, trusting birth is a bizarre and deadly strategy.
2 out of 3 babies who
die at homebirth could have been saved in the hospital.
Since 2 out of 3 babies who
die at homebirth could have been saved in the hospital, hiring an attendant who is trained in «normal birth» is not going to save those babies.
To her credit, she acknowledges that Gaskin has no training of any kind, that one of her own children
died at homebirth when she refused to seek medical attention for him and that The Farm is a new age cult, but Shapiro gives Gaskin a pass on far more than safety data.
And it's not like the risk of a baby
dying at homebirth is greater than the risk of a baby dying in a car accident.
One of her own children
died at a homebirth and she refused to seek help for that baby and watched him die.
Finally, an official body has noted that homebirth midwives, organized as Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), have refused to release their own data on babies who have
died at homebirth.
Not exact matches
How many of the 27,000 babies in their database of outcomes from 2001 - 2008
died at the hands of
homebirth midwives?
MANA refuses to release the number of those 24,000 babies who
died at the hands of
homebirth midwives.
How many babies
die at the hands of
homebirth midwives?
Maybe they are smiling because they know it doesn't matter how many babies
die at the hands of self - proclaimed
homebirth midwives.
Unless standards are raised, babies will continue to
die unnecessarily
at births attended by American
homebirth midwives.
How many babies have to
die before the Midwives Alliance of North America is forced to publicly acknowledge that they KNOW that
homebirth at the hands of a CPM dramatically increases the rate of perinatal death?
In those 16 years, I have seen babies
die at the hospital and NOT ONE come in from a
homebirth dead!
How many babies have to
die preventable deaths
at homebirth before
homebirth advocates acknowledge the obvious?
I don't know any rational woman who would go ahead with a
homebirth in the knowledge that
at least 1 in 500 babies, even in optimal circumstances,
die.
What hardly ever gets pointed out, in the «babies
die in hospitals» [faux] argument is that, while, yes, babies do
die in hospitals, it is after everything possible has been done to save them, whereas in
homebirth babies are put
at the utmost risk of death by not having proper staff / equipment / conditions, etc. to save them.
I actually did have a midwife
at my
homebirth and sadly my baby
died.
When they nearly bleed out or their baby
dies at their HBA2C attempt and STILL proclaim that
homebirth is 100 % safe and natural and they're definitely going to do it again and NO WAY is their severe 100 % preventable PPH or 100 % preventable dead baby the fault of abysmal «medical» care... she calls them on it.
Yes, babies
die in the hospital, but they
die at rates 3 - 10 times higher
at homebirth because HOMEBIRTH INJURES AND KILL
homebirth because
HOMEBIRTH INJURES AND KILL
HOMEBIRTH INJURES AND KILLS BABIES.
Babies
die all the time
at homebirth, and the biggest risk factors lead to the greatest number of deaths.
However, you are lashing out
at a community of women who are working hard to give their babies the best start possible and completely ignoring the huge number of women and babies that
die in hospitals that far exceeds that of
homebirths... Trying to clean the speck out of my eye while you've got a flippin tree in your own eye.
I wonder how many women have been supported and encouraged by
homebirth websites to risk their babies» lives
at homebirth and then have those babies
die.
So your logic is that because there are fewer babies that
died last year
at Homebirth as compared to all the other 99 % of the population who chose hospital birth, that
Homebirth is safer?
Perhaps it will eventually dawn on Bielanko that women and babies were
dying in droves
at those
homebirths, but that's probably too much to hope for.
The critical difference between the babies who
die as a result of a hospital birth and those who die as a result of a homebirth is that those who die at home DID N'T HAVE TO D
die as a result of a hospital birth and those who
die as a result of a homebirth is that those who die at home DID N'T HAVE TO D
die as a result of a
homebirth is that those who
die at home DID N'T HAVE TO D
die at home DID N'T HAVE TO
DIEDIE!
On the very thread where you are blaming yourself, two other women reveal that their babies
died of preventable causes
at homebirth.
All of these studies profess to count how many babies supposedly
die at planned attended low risk
homebirth, but none of them do.
You seem to be working on the assumption that since only 0.21 % of babies
die at or around a
homebirth that it won't happen to you.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to speculate that an extraordinarily high number of babies
die at the hands of
homebirth midwives.
When I said the word «
homebirth» to ANYONE I got a host of horror stories that always ended the same «and if i hadn't of been
at the hospital my baby would of
DIED»: /
Your wife may be disappointed that you do not approve of
homebirth, but that is nothing compared to the lifelong heartache both she and you will endure if your baby
dies at home because the emergency treatment he or she needed was too far away to make a difference.
The authors fails to give any theoretical explanation for what complication of planned attended
homebirth, that is not present
at planned hospital birth could account for 1 in every 625
homebirths dying during labor
at the hands of licensed doctors and midwives.
Every year
at least 100 US mothers
die from cesareans (1/10, 000 among the million cesareans per year) and would be alive if they had had planned attended
homebirths.
Like Caroline Lovell
died after a
Homebirth cardiac arrest speculative after a post partum hemorrhage
at home?